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The Incoming Congress May Look Diverse, But Diversity Of Thought Is Dwindling

November 30, 2018 by

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By Star Parker ~ The headlines about the incoming 116th Congress scream that our representation has never been so “young,” so “blue,” so “diverse.” If diversity is about how people look, this Congress is very diverse. It’s a fact that there has never been so great a number of representatives who are women and people […]

Name 4 a Borough that is causing extreme pain to #CRPS #Veteran?

June 30, 2017 by

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May 9th I asked Duryea Borough to place a no truck turn around sign at the entrance of this tiny dead-end road. I also begged them to stop backing the garbage trucks up to my home three times a week. They could drive in and then back up with very few black up Alarms. I […]

What Happens For Consumers After Congress Repeals Obamacare

January 14, 2017 by

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By Melissa Quinn ~ All the talk about congressional Republicans preparing to repeal Obamacare may have some Americans on edge, but GOP lawmakers say they intend to craft a plan that will phase out the health care law to ensure a “stable transition” for consumers who depend on it. Republicans say they want consumers to keep […]

The EPA Invites Secret Green Activist Lawsuits

November 3, 2016 by

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The result: regulations created in secret with zero input or knowledge by stakeholders By Larry Bell ~ Overreaching federal regulators, the EPA in particular, are getting lots of help from collaborating anonymous lawyers they pay to sue them. The Department of Treasury even maintains a special “Judgement Fund” to perpetuate these legal charades. Referred to […]

End Of Season Sale: Pay Now Play Later?

August 24, 2016 by

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A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ According to the Columbus Ohio Dispatch (quoting the Associated Press Report: NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton’s family foundation will no longer accept foreign and corporate donations if she is elected president, and will bring an end to its annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting regardless of the outcome of the November […]

Time To Shut Down The Department Of Education

May 19, 2016 by

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By Star Parker ~ Many with great political power in Washington, who control so much of our money, cannot distinguish between a fact and an opinion. The Department of Education was created under President Carter in 1979 under the same misguided pretense that has driven much of the growth of our massively bloated federal government […]

CNN Enables Hillary’s Whitewash

January 28, 2016 by

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By Brent Bozell and Tim Graham ~ Just a couple of weeks after CNN happily acquiesced to a quickly improvised “town hall” meeting for President Obama to promote gun control, they once again agreed with the Democrats to provide a “town hall” event with Iowa voters. It was not a debate, where the candidates would […]

Obama’s New Energy Plan Could Cost $2.5 Trillion In Lost Economic Growth

August 4, 2015 by

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By Nicolas Loris ~ The Obama administration unveiled its climate change regulations for new and existing power plants, calling the plan “the biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken to combat climate change.” It may be the most “important” from a top-down, regulatory mandate for high energy prices, but it won’t accomplish much, if anything, […]

On Benghazi Subpoena, Hillary Lies And Media Yawns

July 11, 2015 by

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By Andrew C McCarthy ~ Commentators are probably right in assessing that Brianna Keilar’s CNN interview with Hillary Clinton was not quite the love-in that many of us anticipated. (See Jim Geraghty’s review of the Clinton interview, here.) Still, you have to mourn the media’s lack of self-respect: as Jim pointed out in Wednesday’s Morning Jolt, Mrs. Clinton […]

Ask The Expert

June 12, 2015 by

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A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ In today’s “Ask the Expert” cartoon,I pose a question that more and more people are asking. I, personally, have not been able to decide on my answer. . . So I “asked” my cartoon Mideast “expert”. The punchline of the cartoon leaves our Expert trying to decide on HIS answer, […]

While Obama Talks Climate Change, Iran Talks Of Raining Down Missiles On Israel

May 23, 2015 by

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By Jim Kouri, CPP. ~ On Wednesday, while President Barack Obama gave a commencement speech for the graduating class at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in which he decried the growing threat of climate change, conditions in the Middle East are heating up. A top military aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, announced his […]

Why This Economist Wants Government To Stop Wasting Money On Alternative Energy

March 25, 2015 by

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By Jamie Jackson ~ On Tuesday, a House Science subcommittee held an oversight hearing on the Department of Energy. The Heritage Foundation’s Nick Loris was on hand to testify that  the agency continues to waste taxpayer dollars funding alternative forms of energy. Loris, the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow, argues the government’s focus should be […]

John Kerry: Scripture Commands USA to Protect Muslim Countries Against Global Warming

September 4, 2014 by

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Apparently Lurch is at it again. Last Wednesday, at a ceremony to appoint Texas lawyer Shaarik Zafar to be special representative to Muslim communities, Secretary of State John Kerry said it was the United States’ Biblical “responsibility” to “confront climate change,” including to protect “vulnerable Muslim majority counties.” Kerry said Scripture, in particular the Book of […]

“THE DOG ATE IT”

June 19, 2014 by

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By T. L. Jenkins The new revelation that the IRS has “lost” nearly two years worth of Lois Lerner’s emails makes the Watergate scandal seem like a bedtime story compared to this new horror that the Obama administration is attempting to perpetrate on the American public. Who is going to believe the Lerner emails and the […]

Obama’s State Of The Union Speech Will Be All Lies

January 22, 2014 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ On January 28, the President of the United States will stand before a joint session of Congress and lie to them and to all Americans. The mainstream media will treat it as a serious presentation and make no mention of the lies. Following the State of the Union speech (SOTU) there […]

Rebuffed by Washington Netanyahu heads to Moscow

November 21, 2013 by

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Netanyahu takes Iran nuclear campaign to Kremlin (via AFP)  By Steve Weizman At odds with ally Washington over an emerging nuclear agreement with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will on Wednesday take his campaign against the deal to Moscow. Russia is a member of the P5+1 group — alongside the United States,… What do […]

Recognizing The Real Conservative/Liberal Battle Line

October 20, 2013 by

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By Christopher Adamo ~ In the wake of George W. Bush’s razor thin 2000 presidential victory, which was secured by barely five hundred votes in the state of Florida, Democrats were livid. Seeing their efforts to steal the election, through endless selective recounts, thwarted by a Supreme Court decision to accept the certified tallies, they […]

The Cruz Crusade

September 26, 2013 by

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By Alan Caruba ~ Back in May, in a commentary titled “Ted Cruz for President”, I took note of the reasons why he would be eligible to run for President in 2016, citing the opinions of legal scholars and others. The odds have just gone up that he will not only make a run for […]

Shh! Obama Administration Puts Brakes On XpressWest High-Speed Rail Project

July 12, 2013 by

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By Emily Goff ~ Let’s call it former Transportation Secretary Ray H. LaHood’s eleventh-hour pardon of federal and California taxpayers. Once positioned by the Obama Administration as its transportation pièce de résistance, the XpressWest high-speed rail (HSR) line from Victorville, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, has been derailed. Today, Senator Jeff Sessions (R–AL) and Representative […]

Dick Durbin: Congress Should Decide Who Qualifies For First Amendment Freedoms

July 9, 2013 by

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By Matthew Sheffield ~ In addition to trying to redefine the Second Amendment as not protecting anyone’s right to bear arms, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin (pictured) is now excited about how to redefine the First Amendment. As with guns, Durbin is trying to limit constitutional freedoms so that they cannot be used by people of […]

The Company Senator Sleaze-Bob Menendez Keeps

February 9, 2013 by

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By Michelle Malkin ~ Put on your shocked faces: Since my bipartisan call last week for Democratic women to join the Ladies Against Senator Sleaze-Bob movement, not a single Democratic woman in Washington has signed up. Here’s the thing. The brewing scandal involving N.J. Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, the new chairman of the Senate Foreign […]

Stop Playing Games

December 5, 2012 by

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The Patriot Post ~ The Foundation “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” –Thomas Jefferson Editorial Exegesis “Both the White House and House Republicans are pretending that their goal is ‘reducing the deficit,’ which they suggest means making real spending choices. … Since 1974, Capitol Hill’s ‘baseline’ […]

That’s The Obama I Voted For!

October 18, 2012 by

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THE PATRIOT POST ~ Subject: A Critical Notice About Today’s Edition Patriots, Today, instead of the column over my “Mark Alexander” byline, you’ll receive a message with this subject line: “That’s the Obama I voted for!“ The message will be from “Karen” with the e-mail address ColoradoU02@gmail.com. Her name and address have been altered, but […]

Government Is the Problem – Not the Solution

September 8, 2012 by

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By Tom McLaughlin ~ Do you know people still living in their homes after defaulting on their mortgage payments? I do, and I wonder what that must be like. Some have been doing this for two years or more, so why doesn’t the bank evict them and auction the house? Because it’s afraid to. Because […]